Seemed Like A Good Idea.....

[Spruance]

We've all had those garden nightmares/disasters, so why not ease your burden by sharing them here? ;D

[Chuckles]

One of the first big booboo's we made in the garden some 26yrs ago was to plant about 10 Leylandi on the top boundry of the garden. Over the years we realised our mistake and this is a picture of the last 2, we removed them about 10 yrs ago. They were 30ft plus high Gosh the garden looks very different now ;D



Also in my ignorance I planted a Montana between the kitchen and bathroom window of our single storey extention on the back of the house. Looked lovely but got way out of control and eventually had to go.

[nightowl]

OMG Chuckles, they grew to 30 ft in just 16 years?

That's the trouble with Leylandii, so many people who plant them as a hedge have no idea that they are baby trees and by the time they realise it's too late, they've gone beyond control.

[nightowl]

One of mine is that I planted an arch with a clem. Montana on one side, and a clem. Tangutica on the other, for spring and late summer colour.

Now, when I cut the montana back after flowering, it's all tangled up with the new Tangutica shoots and vice-versa when I need to cut the tangutica back. It's a nightmare and loads of stems get broken.

One year I left them unpruned to see what happened. Again, not one of my brighter ideas The resulting mess couldn't be untangled and had to be hacked down in one big heap before it brought the arch down, and I lost most of the Montana flowers the next spring!

[andy]

I spent 3 months and an absolute fortune building my koi pond. But i cut too many corners to save costs, didn'd put the correct footings in, no steel rods through the blocks and i totally underestimated the pressure of water.

As a result, two of the 4 walls collapsed.....luckily against the fence so no water escaped.

I had to take all 120 blocks down, clean them up and re-lay them at a much higher cost.

What a muppet

[jean]

I ordered a new shed from a GC along with a couple of muppets to erect it in my garden. Not really knowing anything about sheds took the GC at its word that it could be erected on concrete blocks over grass. The shed had 3" nails sticking out all over the place and the roof didn't meet in the middle, the felt roofing lasted approx 2 weeks before it was ripped off by wind (no gales)and the shed sunk into the ground. A carefully worded letter had the GC replace the shed within 2 weeks which gave me time to make a gravel hard standing. 6 years on and its still there

[nightowl]

Confession time! Today I have realised I have been nurturing a weed! A Willow Herb to be precise!

In my defence I must say that it's not yer common old Rosebay W H, which I would have spotted and pulled out straight away, but a Great Hairy Willow Herb, no less.(according to my trusty I-Spy Wild Flowers)

It's really rather nice, very tall and elegant (at least it can hold itself up, not like some of my other tall things flopping all over the place) and got lovely silvery-green foliage, so I think I'll let it stay til it starts trying to seed!

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When the garden was very new - i.e. bare - two-and-a-bit years ago, a friend gave me some tansy. A beautiful plant, but a thug - I planted bits of it all over the place to take the bare look off, and am still digging it up (although I still have 'intentional' clumps - its ferny leaves look lovely with so many plants) ... cheers ...